Ambient & Retail Ready

  • Budget 2016: Extra Support for Small Businesses

    25 March 2016 News
    The Government has announced England's largest ever business rate cut for all ratepayers, worth a total of £6.7bn over the next five years

  • 5 Ways to Create a Food Community

    24 March 2016 News
    As local food and drink website bigbarn.co.uk embarks on an ambitious food community project in the villages of Alconbury and Alconbury West, founder Anthony Davison offers his advice on building a food network in your local town or village

  • Young Butcher Wins National Award

    23 March 2016 News
    Earlier this month, FARMA partnered with AHDB Beef and Lamb to celebrate the skill of butchers working in the farm shop sector through its Farm Butcher of the Year competition

  • Millenial Energy

    23 March 2016 Speciality Bites
    I don’t just think it’s because I am getting older (just having celebrated a very large birthday), but I am sure there is a much higher number of younger people in the speciality food sector these days. It could well be a case of “don’t…

  • Farm Shop & Deli Awards Finalists Revealed

    21 March 2016 News
    The finalists of the third annual Farm Shop & Deli Awards have been announced, representing the very best standards, service, product innovation and community involvement in the fine food retail sector

  • The Interview: Jeremy Torz

    18 March 2016 News
    Meet Jeremy Torz, co-founder of Union Hand-Roasted and proud pioneer of the UK's coffee market

  • Budget 2016: Sugar Tax Announced

    17 March 2016 News
    Chancellor George Osborne has introduced a tax on sugar as part of this year's budget

  • What will a ‘Brexit’ mean for us?

    16 March 2016 Brexit
    In June, the British public will decide whether to stay within the European Union or go it alone. 'Brexit'-centric stories have been all over the media in recent weeks, with some MPs choosing independence from the EU while others gear up to govern an autonomous Britain,…

  • Blueberry Group Buys Vine Wholesale

    15 March 2016 News
    The Blueberry Group has acquired Vine Wholesale Ltd (trading and known as Palmars Products), a Dorset-based supplier of ambient fine foods to independent retailers and department stores across the UK

  • “I signed up for origami class, but it folded…”

    15 March 2016 Town Crier
    Last week I did two things out of character: I bought cheese from a supermarket, and I watched a ‘RomCom’. I won’t name the shop; the film was Love Actually

  • “Sausage wars”

    15 March 2016 Fine Food
    When it comes to enthusiasm for sausages and pies I bow to no man. For me the humble snorker plays a pivotal role on many menus, filling the gap between lumps of meat various and those more complicated dishes that tickle the chef’s fancy. But given…

  • Real Food Ilkley Launches Fine Food Market

    15 March 2016 News
    A collective of West Yorkshire-based food retailers and producers have come together to launch a Fine Food and Local Produce Market, which will take place on the first Sunday of every month until December
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